European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 29, 1992 . The stars and stripes a Page 5 senator assails Iraq deals probe Washington a the chairman of the sen ate banking committee accused the Bush administration tuesday of putting out false information on . Export of advanced technology to Iraq before the per Sian Gulf War. At a rare hearing during the congressional recess sen. Donald w. Riegle jr., d-mich., also criticized the Justice department for what he called a delay in investigating possible criminal wrongdoing by administration officials. It appears on the face of it that Laws were broken the people that did it have to be identified said Rie Gle who was the Only committee member  delay cannot go on indefinitely Here. If this Justice department and attorney general Don t do it then another one  before they were submitted to Congress documents pertaining to Export licenses for Iraq were improperly altered by Commerce department employees to Dis Guise their military potential the department s inspector general has found. Rep. Henry b. Gonzalez a Texas the House Bank ing committee chairman who has investigated .-Iraq ties for two years testified tuesday that the Bush administration helped the iraqis build a nuclear Supergan by approving Export licenses in 1989 for re lated technology. Gonzalez said the Commerce department granted an Export License in 1989 to space research corp. Of Maryland for a computer used to design a projectile for the Long Range howitzer designed to deliver nuclear arms. At the time Gonzalez said the state department knew space research was engaged in numerous Mili tary projects in Iraq. Iraq had . Weapons documents show Washington a president Bush says no . Weapons were found in iraqi hands during the persian Gulf War. But . Military intelligence suggests he May be wrong. Two newly declassified reports show that Iraq handsome . Weapons in its Arsenal mostly land mines and mortars during the War. And a military official said tuesday that the mines could have caused some of the dozens of casualties suffered by american troops when a .-led coalition ousted iraqi forces from Kuwait last year. The reports were prepared by . Army Intelli gence officials in november 1990. The documents were designed to familiarize american military planners with the enemy s capability. The partially declassified and heavily censored re ports were obtained by William Arkin director of military research for Greenpeace an activist environmental group under the Freedom of information act. The reports Don t say How the iraqis obtained the weapons. But a Pentagon official said they were obtained in one of four ways bought from . Allies who either purchased them from the United states or were licensed to manufacture them. Captured from current or former . Allies such As Kuwait or Iran. Received from . Allies such As Jordan or Pakistan. Bought on the International Black Market. The reports contain no evidence that . Manufacturers sold weapons directly to Iraq. But they Point to How porous the arms Market is said Arkin. Not surprisingly the state department misled the Public about Export licenses approved for space re search corp.," Gonzalez said. Riegle was bolstered in his assertions by testimony from nuclear technology experts who disputed recent statements by president Bush and top administration officials that . Technology was not used in Iraq s nuclear weapons program. Also at the hearing Gonzalez released a letter that he had sent agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan seeking information on alleged recent shredding of documents about us a s loan guarantees for Iraq. Citing Gonzalez questions democratic vice presidential candidate Al Gore campaigning in Wisconsin on tuesday called on Bush to order Cabinet secretaries and Agency chiefs to ban destruction of any documents related to . Dealings with Iraq. Us a spokesman Roger Runningen said the Rele vant office last week shredded Only personal expense accounts and commodity reports on Rice and Cotton. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago oct. 29,1982 defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger said soviet president Leonid i. Brezhnev s vow to counter the . Arms buildup re quires that the West stay on the course of american rearmament. 20 years ago oct. 29,1972 sen. George s. Mcgovern predicted he would win the presidency despite pollsters surveys adding that if he loses he could not ask the american people to rally behind Richard m. Nixon. 30 years ago oct. 29,1962 soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev ordered the dismantling of soviet missile bases in Cuba and the return of military equipment to his nation. 40 years ago oct. 29,1952 president tru Man accused Dwight d. Eisenhower the gop presidential candidate of being thoroughly dishonest about Korea. World War ii 50 years ago today oct. 29 1�94�2 the afrika Korps fails in another attack on the Northern part of Britain s 8th army in Western Egypt and the British detect that the Southern part of the Axis line has been weakened. In the Pacific australian soldiers drive the japanese from Eora on new Guinea s Kokorda Trail. On Guadalcanal the . Marines prepare to follow the retreating japanese. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a new Atlas shows world of change Washington a after two years of work to Cope with a changing world the National geographic society unveiled its new world Atlas tuesday in two versions 9-Pound hard cover Book and a half ounce compact disc. Changes in world politics have made life miserable for map makers Over the last couple of years. The new editions Are the society s Effort to keep up to Date. The electronic version of the picture Atlas of the world on the compact disc is aimed primarily at students and schools. Two years ago we issued the Atlas to end All atlases said society spokesman Robert Sims. That was then and this is  National geographic Magazine editor Bill Graves said the 1990 version was the finest and most accurate world Atlas Ever compiled. And As our Reward the world promptly came apart he said. The 31 flags arrayed behind the two men illustrated the problem. They rep resent new countries changes in old ones or new flags that have been adopted since the 1990 Atlas was issued. Chief cartographer Jack Shupe said nearly two thirds of the maps in the pre Vious Atlas had to be revised for numer Ous reasons including Russia changed Many place names Leningrad became St. Petersburg again for example and the soviet Union broke into a dozen or so countries. More than 85 percent of the place names in Ukraine had to be changed As that country separated from the soviet Union and switched from russian to ukrainian names. Greece adopted a system of changing names from one alphabet to another. Yugoslavia is coming apart. Nigeria moved its capital from coast Al Lagos to centrally located Abuja. Yep senator admits he s from space Savannah a. A  Nunn says those tabloid reports Are True he is a space alien. I confess the Georgia  during an appearance Mon a. It s amazing i be been Able to keep it a secret for 54  world news reported last week that Nunn and four other senators republicans Orrin g. Hatch of Utah Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas and Alan k. Simpson of Wyoming and Democrat John Glenn of Ohio Are aliens. Nunn joked that he is from Skryp a secret for 54  ton Superman s fictional . Sam Nunn dreams Are key to learning new skills research shows los Angeles a people who dream during a Good night s sleep Are More Likely to remember newly Learned skills a researcher says. For some types of problem solving one should consider not Only sleeping on it As common Wisdom would have it but perhaps dreaming on it As Well Israel s Weizmann Institute of science said in news release describing the research. Or. Avi Kami an Institute neuroscientist said tuesday that his study shows the dream stage of sleep called Rem or rapid Eye movement sleep helps people permanently remember skills they were taught hours earlier. People deprived of Rem sleep have trouble remembering new skills he added. The findings suggest that How to skills such As How to read Type Fly plane or perform other tasks might be taught most effectively during afternoon or evening hours before a Good night s sleep Kami said. He said the study also indicates that drugs or other methods might be devel oped to improve skill learning by increasing the length of the Rem sleep. Kami who is doing postdoctoral re search at the National institutes of health in Bethesda md., presented his findings in Anaheim calif., during the annual meeting of the society for neuroscience. It s a great study said psychologist Carlyle Smith of Canada s Trent univer sity m Peterborough Ontario. Smith conducted previous research showing that students who study hard during weekdays forget much of what they Learned if they disrupt their Rem sleep by partying All night on weekends. Kami and Smith said their studies show dream sleep is important Only for memorizing How to skills not for memorizing factual or what knowledge such As the contents of a Book